That's not the smooth, humming sound we're used to hearing when the weapon is turned on. Listen to that new lightsaber when it ignites. But beyond the addition of a lightsaber hilt, there's another difference: the sound. As you can see in the trailer, this is not your father's lightsaber (or Luke's father's for that matter). Perhaps the answer lies in the reveal of what has been dubbed the crossguard lightsaber (which got a variety of reactions online). Though that also makes us wonder if Luke still has the green lightsaber that he had in Return of the Jedi.Д«ut more importantly, we also wonder why Luke's lightsaber is important at all. And if it's the lightsaber Luke was given by Obi-Wan Kenobi, that would explain why it's been lost all these years, since it fell somewhere in Cloud City along with Luke's hand in The Empire Strikes Back. If Luke Skywalker's lightsaber is an important plot device, that would certainly explain why Abrams chose to include the specific sound of his lightsaber, which actually belonged to his father Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader). Though we've also heard that our heroes may not be the only ones looking for their estranged friend, and they may also be after the lightsaber too.

Rumors peg the lightsaber as a MacGuffin that leads them to encounter Han Solo and Chewbacca, who haven't seen Skywalker in 30 years, and this leads them to go searching for the Jedi. We won't get into specifics (you can read more details right here), but the most important detail is that our main characters come into possession of Luke Skywalker's lightsaber at some point in the film. Now keep in mind that this is just speculation, so don't take any of this as fact or even rumor when it comes to the events that will unfold in Star Wars: Episode VII.ДЇirst of all, let's talk about the plot details that surfaced over the summer. Thankfully a hint at the answer just might lie earlier in the trailer, and it seems to be confirmed by plot details that leaked over the summer. Abrams we're talking about, so it has to mean something. You might just disregard that as a fun little easter egg, but this is Bad Robot and J.J. Well, what's interesting is that the sound in question isn't used as a cool way to reveal the release date, but it comes after that title card. For some reason, 'Good Morning America' went out of their way to reveal the 'exclusive' detail that the sound was that of Luke Skywalker's lightsaber from A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. At the very end of the teaser trailer, after the 'December 2015' bumper disappears, there's the sound of a lightsaber.

However, one element that seems to have been largely overlooked isn't something that can be seen, but rather heard. Every single frame of the teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been examined all over the internet, and it's led to rampant speculation about a variety of things.

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